Ricardo Antonio Chavira
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| Born | Ricardo Antonio Chavira September 1, 1971 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2000–present | ||||||
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Ricardo Antonio Chavira (born September 1, 1971 in Austin, Texas) is a Mexican American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Carlos Solis on Desperate Housewives.
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[edit] Education
Raised in San Antonio, Texas, he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School (San Antonio, Texas), now the Performing Arts School, and the University of the Incarnate Word. He is a '00 UC, San Diego Alumnus and received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the UC San Diego's Professional Actor Training Program in 2000, and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. Since that time, he has worked in film, television and theatre.
[edit] Career
Film credits include Touchstone's The Alamo. Television credits prior to Desperate Housewives include a series regular role on The Grubbs, recurring roles on Six Feet Under and The Division, and guest star roles on Joan of Arcadia, Kingpin, Monk, 24 and JAG, as well as NYPD Blue and two other Steven Bochco series, Philly and City of Angels. He also guest starred on ABC's The George Lopez Show last season.
Chavira starred in a production of Tracers at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, and also starred in a co-production of Living Out.
[edit] Breast cancer advocate
Chavira is a supporter of breast cancer reasearch, his mother, Elizabeth Ries Chavira died of breast and ovarian cancer when she was 43 years old.
Chavira is San Antonio's honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and last June served as the National Team Captain for the Race for the Cure in Washington, D.C..
Chavira was the 2005 co-spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day breast cancer fundraiser.
[edit] Family
Chavira has one son, Tomas Antonio Chavira, born in 2003, with Marcea Dietzel, whom he married September 22, 2007. Expecting second child in 2008. [1].
Son of Bexar County's Judge Juan Antonio Chavira.
